Surgical Ward 9 — Peyami Safa

In the final days of World War I and the Ottoman Empire an unnamed fifteen year old boy suffering from severe bone tuberculosis drifts from doctor to doctor unwilling to follow their advice As his despair and incurable condition trap him in a lonely fevered solitude he seeks solace in a platonic infatuation with an older girl Nuzhet Surgical Ward 9 is one of the most raw and honest accounts ever written of a sick person s inner world his envy longing ambition disappointment terror hope and despair all caused by his illness and frailty This melancholic yet strangely vibrant fictional diary bears traces of Peyami Safa s own childhood struggles and its power still endures today Tanıtım Bülteninden